Samuel rite



(MOdeL) S. RUE.

TRIMMER OR SHEARS.

Patented Mar. 22, 1887.

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WITNESSES:

4 vision the blade and bed-knife may be readily plates secured together at their fronts and SAMUEL RUE, OF ERCILDOUN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO MARY E. RUE, OF SAME,PLAOE.

TRIMMER on SHEARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettera Patent No. 359,890 dated March 2,1887.

Application filed nae-25, 1886.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL Run, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ercildoun, in the county of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Trimmers or Shears, which improvement is fully set forth in. the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a trimmer or shears embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of one portion thereof. Fig. 3 represents a section in line a: a, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a side elevation of a detached portion.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention relates to a trimmer or shears for hedges,&c. ,provided with removable blades or knives, and constructed strong and dura' hle, and possessing other advantages, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents two arms, which are pivoted together by the bolt 13, and each provided with a handle, 0.

At or about the pivotal portions of the arms are heads D, which are cast with or otherwise firmly secured to said arms, and each provided with a l0ngitudinallyextending recess, E, and adjacent thereto with a bolt, F.

G represents a blade or knife, which is formed with a shank or tang, H; and J represents a guard or bed-knife, which is formed with a tang, K, the tangs H K being fitted, respectively, in the recesses E of the heads D. The heads of the bolts F overlap the tangs H K, and when said bolts are tightened by the nuts L said bolts firmly clamp the blade and bed-knife in position on the heads D and prevent displacement thereof. By this proapplied to the heads, securely retained thereon, and easily removed when broken or dull. For the latter purpose the nuts L are unscrewed, and the heads of the bolts lose their holding power on the tangs pf the blade and bed-knife, so that the latter may be withdrawn from the heads D.

The bed-knife is formed of two blades or Serial No. 206,276. (Modeh) backs, or formed in one piece, and suificiently separated to permit the blade G to enter the same during the cutting operation, the space between the plates being the widest opposite to the place of entrance of the blade G, so that should pieces of wood, hedge, &c., enter said space they will drop through the bedknife, and the latter thus clear itself of possible obstructions.

The front portions of the heads D are formed with shoulders M, which are located near the axial or pivotal bolt B of the implement. By this provision the inner ends of the cuttingedges of the knife and guard or bed-knife are formed as closely as possible to the pivotal bolt B, whereby when the knives are separated the material to be cut may be inserted between the same nearer the bolt, and thus there is a gain of power in operating the implement, and the forwardly-extending portion M of said heads provides enlarged supports for the knife and guard, preventing the latter from breaking at the shoulders formed by the tangs should they be subjected to rough usage or strain.

N represents rubber or other elastic bufi'ers, whichare fitted in sockets P, the latter being connected with the handles 0, said bufi'ers facing each other and abutting when the handles are closed, thus preventing jarring of and injury to the implement, especially during heavy work.

When the bed-knife or guard J is formed in one piece, it may be cast integral with its supporting-head I).

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- p 1. A trimmer or shears having a bed-knife composed of two blades secured at their fronts and backs, the blades being wider apart at their bottom than at their upper parts, all substantially as described.

2. A trimmer or shears composed of pivoted handle having heads with recesses, a removable cutting blade, a removable bed; knife, and fastening-bolts, said bed-knife being formed of two blades separate from each other and fastened together at their fronts and backs, said cutting-blade and bed-knife too being fitted in the recesses of the heads and secured by said bolts, all substantially aswdescribed.

3. A trimmer 0r shears composed of the I 5 pivoted handles A, having recessed heads D, -W1'tnesses:

with shoulders M, the blade G, and bed-knife JOHN A. Vnsmmsunm, J, all of said parts being combined and arl JAS. F. KELLY.

ranged substantially and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL RUE. 

